The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, Konstantin Eggert and Ilya Zaslavskiy join host Brian Whitmore to talk about the sentencing of Alexei Navalny and the consequences of his influence for years to come.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, Maria Snegovaya, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and Franak Viačorka, Belarusian journalist and advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, comment on the solidarity among protestors in Russia and Belarus as each nation battles government corruption and political oppression.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, host Brian Whitmore is joined by Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Zaslavskiy of Free Russia Foundation to discuss Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's arrest in Moscow and his anti-corruption campaign that revealed Vladimir Putin's opulent palace on the Black Sea coast.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, host Brian Whitmore is joined by Maria Snegovaya, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, and Konstantin Eggert, columnist on Russian Affairs for Deutsche Welle, to discuss Alexei Navalny's decision to return to Russia just five months after surviving an assassination attempt by the Kremlin.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, John Sipher, 28-year CIA veteran, and David Venable, a former intelligence officer for the U.S. National Security Agency, join host Brian Whitmore to discuss the aftermath of Russia’s SolarWinds hack.

In this episode of The Power Vertical, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center Melinda Haring join host Brian Whitmore to discuss Ukraine's struggle to tame its oligarchs and fully establish the rule of law.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, Michael Carpenter, managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration, joins host Brian Whitmore to discuss the future of U.S.-Russia relations.

John Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the CIA's National Clandestine Service and Clint Watts, former FBI special agent, join host Brian Whitmore to discuss tactics of the Kremlin's political war on truth, facts, and Western institutions.

In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast host Brian Whitmore discusses the weird rumors of Putin's ill health, the State Duma's vote to grant former presidents immunity and seats in the Federation Council, and the Kremlin's erratic decision-making with guests Ilya Ponomarev and Ilya Zaslavskiy.

Authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China have spent more than $300 million interfering in democratic processes over the past decade. In this episode Josh Rudolph, Fellow for Malign Finance at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, takes us behind the scenes of these covert financial attacks and sheds light on the Kremlin's influence all over the world.

For two decades, Vladimir Putin has been the master of the Russian universe. But 2020 may go down as the year when he lost his mojo. In this episode of The Power Vertical Podcast, special guest Mark Galeotti joins host Brian Whitmore to discuss the major themes of his book, We Need to Talk About Putin.

Brian Whitmore of The Power Vertical speaks to BBC 5 Live's Stephen Nolan about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

In the wake of Alexei Navalny's poisoning, Brian Whitmore joins BBC 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo to discuss the Kremlin's long history of attempted and successful assassinations.